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Oct 13, 2011
In order to spread the "LED lighting revolution" in China, the nation recently completed its largest highway lighting project yet. Upgrading almost 75 miles of roadway with LED fixtures, The Shenzhen highway project replaced over 10,000 street lights to now feature over a million Cree XLamp® XP-G and XP-E High Efficiency White (HEW) LEDs.

Oct 13, 2011
Greenway Design Group, Inc. announced appointment of Abe Mathalon as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Greenway Design Group, Inc. Mathalon will assume responsibility for all of the corporation's development and growth activities including investor relations.

Oct 13, 2011
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, a global LED component manufacturer, recently added new tools and resources to its LED Light Site to help keep customers updated on the latest general lighting solutions, while providing continued LED education through video demonstrations and technical papers.

Oct 13, 2011
BMC Software, has launched an unique initiative to "gain by saving" by replacing lighting fixtures in its Pune office facilities with higher efficiency LED Lights from Hanul Technologies resulting in over 65 percent savings in power. These savings will be donated to a remote village outside of Sakur India to light the streets and homes and bring "New Life After Dusk" to the villagers.

Oct 13, 2011
austriamicrosystems, a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs has announced its new AS364X family of LED flash drivers for mobile phones, cameras and other portable devices. The high level of integration and 4 MHz operation of the DC-DC boost converter enable the industry's smallest device sizes, yet still maintains the highest accuracy to ensure the best picture and video quality. The new driver family supports output currents from 320 mA up to 2 A providing optimal solutions for entry-level cell phones to high-end smartphones, tablets, DSCs and VCRs.

Oct 12, 2011
Cree just announced new levels of performance for its highly efficient XLamp XP-G LEDs, now delivering up to 140 lumens per watt. By leveraging the popular XP-G LED form factor, these increases in brightness and efficacy can shorten the LED fixture design cycle and improve customer time to market, with drop-in-ready performance enhancements.

Oct 12, 2011
Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient OLED displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED ® technology and materials, has announced in the official press release that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the company a $999,963 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant. The goal of the program is to demonstrate further gains in the performance of large-area, phosphorescent organic light emitting device (PHOLED) lighting panels through enhanced thermal management techniques. This new program builds on the achievements demonstrated by Universal Display during the previous Phase I program.

Oct 12, 2011
Dan Rogers from Plastic Electronics reports on the exciting research led by OLED expert Stephen Forrest, vice president for research at the University of Michigan's materials science and engineering department. The research group has developed a printing process for depositing OLED materials.

According to the report the Organic Vapour Jet Deposition process could simplify the manufacturing of OLEDs for displays and lighting, which could also reduce costs.

Oct 12, 2011
Lunera(R) Lighting, Inc., a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, has introduced the 6460 SERIES, the world's first direct/indirect linear suspended LED luminaire. The 6460 SERIES distributes light 70% directly down to the workspace and 30% indirectly upward to the ceiling. The unique optical design eliminates hot spots and creates very uniform illumination of the ceiling. Designed for 16 foot center-on-center spacing, the 6460 SERIES can be joined into dramatic, continuous runs. The fixture serves a variety of commercial applications including; offices, classrooms, retail spaces, healthcare, and data centers.

Oct 12, 2011
With the 2012 incandescent phase-out on the horizon, OSRAM SYLVANIA has expanded its ULTRA LED collection with the launch of new ULTRA LED omni-directional and ULTRA LED BR lamps. These two new LED lights are available on Menards store shelves and on Menards.com.

Oct 12, 2011
Anolis and Robe exhibited at the designblok11 in Prague, a dynamic high profile expo highlighting creative ideas and innovative concepts across all areas of the design world – from street furniture to fashion, interiors to theatre sets, architecture to furniture. LED lighting solutions are offering excellent opportunities for designers in a variety of areas and Anolis and Robe presentations were extremely popular.

Oct 11, 2011
Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting, controls and daylighting solutions, announced that its new Lithonia Lighting® OLAW23 LED Area/Wall Light was honored as a recipient of a Lighting for Tomorrow Award at the annual American Lighting Association (“ALA”) Conference. Sponsored by the ALA, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (“CEE”) and the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (“UL”), the Lighting for Tomorrow competition annually challenges manufacturers to continuously improve their LED luminaire designs and recognizes the best-designed, most energy-efficient LED luminaires for residential applications. With award criteria including color appearance and rendering, illuminance, efficiency, aesthetics and style, the Lithonia Lighting OLAW23 LED Area/Wall Light was judged against 52 luminaire products from 22 manufacturers. The Lithonia Lighting product was one of six winning LED luminaires.

Oct 11, 2011
A red high-power LED has set a new efficiency record in an OSRAM Opto Semiconductors R&D lab with an electro-optical efficiency of 61 percent. The 1 mm2 chip housed on a laboratory package emits at a wavelength of 609 nm (λ-dom) and has achieved a record value of 201 lm/W at an operating current of 40 mA. At a typical operating current of 350 mA, its luminous efficacy is still an impressive 168 lm/W, which means that even at this high wattage more than half of the electrical energy is converted into light.

Oct 11, 2011
Evluma announced today the release of its new LED dimmable retrofit for Commercial and Industrial HID and incandescent recessed can lights. The Omnipar is a has a 15W-50W adjustable output, is designed with a medium base, and functions as a direct screw-in LED retrofit. The light output and energy consumption can be manually adjusted by the customer during installation. The ultimate result is a change to a more flexible lighting solution.

Oct 11, 2011
Bridgelux Inc., an innovator in LED lighting, today launched its Decor line of high color rendering index (CRI) LED arrays. The Decor LED line combines Bridgelux's own "industry-leading ES and award-winning RS array technology" for the best performance in retail, hospitality, museum, and high-end architectural lighting applications.

Oct 11, 2011
It has been reported that over the weekend the new 47-inch LED-backlit LCD TV panel has been released by LG Display. According to LG the new TV panel has “the world’s lowest power consumption rate among large LCD panels”.

Oct 11, 2011
Larson Electronics' Magnalight has announced the addition of an LED beacon light designed to provide 360° of superior signal generation. The new LEDB-4 LED Beacon provides a full 360 degrees of visibility with 18 integrated LEDs and a specially designed Fresnel lens. Designed to be permanently mounted, this unit includes the necessary mounting hardware to help make installation simple and fast.